People's Democracy

People's Democracy was a Trotskyist political party that existed in Northern Ireland from 1968 to 1996 during The Troubles. The party fought for the rights of the north's Irish Catholic minority, arguing that only the creation of a pan-Irish socialist republic could lead to these rights being achieved. On 1 January 1969, an attack on 40 members of the PD by Ulster unionists during a march from Belfast to Derry led to the start of The Troubles, and the Provisional IRA decided to wage a guerrilla war against the United Kingdom.